Tornado Rating unknown
Potosi Taylor County
“Brief touchdown near Potosi. (SJT)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
/ Storm field report · Jones
Hail in Abilene · Mar 10, 2026
The estimated-size surface reached 2.25" aloft; NEXRAD logged no point detections over Abilene that day. At 2.25" — tennis ball — this is a severe hail signal associated with roof damage. Open it on the live map to see the swath over the streets.
A tornado was also reported to the National Weather Service during this storm. The ground reports below show where it was filed.
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Peak hail signal 2.25" ≈ tennis ball · radar-estimated size aloft
Homes in the hail footprint 28,416
Ground reports 7 6 hail · 1 tornado
Radar surfaces 1 Estimated size only
Convective day · Mar 10, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The most severe storm Abilene has seen in the last 12 months
Composite score · 7.1 / 10
Storm severity score
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
7.1 /10
- Peak hail signal
- 56 /100
- Homes exposed
- 89 /100
- Ground truth
- 100 /100
Largest radar-indicated size — a signal of damage potential, not confirmation.
How many homes sit inside the storm's footprint.
Independent storm reports filed with the NWS.
Evidence / storm surfaces
How Abilene saw the hail — from two instruments
Mar 10, 2026 · Abilene, TX
Each storm gets two readings: the radar signatures NEXRAD recorded as the cells passed overhead, and a modeled estimate of hail size in the air. They are independent surfaces, so a mismatch between them is expected — and worth reading.
Radar-estimated hail size Surface resolved
Estimated size field Radar-estimated hail size over the swath. The model reports the biggest stone the storm could sustain in the air; what actually fell may have been smaller.
Max size
2.25"
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Mar 10, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Abilene, so there is one map to show, not two.
The storm in context
Where Mar 10, 2026 sits in Abilene's hail record.
This was Abilene's 2nd recorded hail day, arriving 4 days after the Mar 6, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 1st of the 10 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Abilene at 2.25" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Mar 10, 2026 convective day was bigger than Abilene: the same system put hail over 470 other tracked cities, 88 of them in Texas. Nearest: Hawley (14 miles northwest, up to 1"); Merkel (18 miles west, up to 1"); Clyde (19 miles southeast, up to 2.25").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 10 Abilene storm dates on a live map — both surfaces, the reports, and a replay — and the same map is where you draw the swath. This page rebuilds nightly.
Ground reports
What people on the ground reported
7 reports filed with the NWS
These are storm reports filed with the National Weather Service and released through the NOAA Storm Prediction Center — public-domain observations from spotters, the public, and NWS surveys. We quote each one exactly as filed.
Tornado reports
1 reportHail reports
6 reports Hail size 1"
2 NNE Abilene Taylor County
“1 inch hail reported via social media with images. (SJT)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 1.25"
Potosi Taylor County
“Half dollar size hail reported via social media over Potosi. (SJT)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 1.5"
Buffalo Gap Taylor County
“Social Media report of Ping Pong size hail over Buffalo Gap. (SJT)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 2.75"
Buffalo Gap Taylor County
“Media reported baseball size hail over Buffalo Gap. (SJT)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 1"
1 S Buffalo Gap Taylor County
“1 inch hail reported with around 50 mph winds by trained spotter out of Buffalo Gap. (SJT)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 1.75"
1 S Buffalo Gap Taylor County
“Golf Ball size hail reported. (SJT)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Storm forensics
How the storm moved
Timing and place names from NOAA ground reports
Read from the arrival times and locations of the NOAA ground reports, not a radar-measured storm track.
Hail was reported over 23 minutes, from to .
Reports came from Potosi and Buffalo Gap — beyond Abilene itself.
Severe hail signal
What 2.25" hail means for Abilene roofs.
Two-inch-plus hail is capable of puncturing shingles, breaking skylights or windows, and heavily denting soft materials. The strongest radar bands warrant prompt inspection, but neither the signal nor the footprint confirms damage at a specific address.
Radar reading · not confirmed damage
Roofing exposure
What this storm is worth to a roofer.
28,416 homes × $12,000 avg. claim
Potential roof exposure
$341M
Potential roof exposure — 28,416 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
- Illustrative jobs
- 142 jobs
- Illustrative work
- ~$2.1M
Close just 0.5% of the 28,416 homes in this footprint at the average $15,000 roof job. Illustrative math, not a projection — your results depend on your outreach and how the market responds.
Claim window
March 2028
Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around March 2028 — the window to reach these homeowners while it's still open. Deadlines vary by policy and state.
Names and phones for every home in the footprint: at most $5,967 on top of the $150 plan.
Abilene hail history
Other storms in Abilene.
10 recorded storm days in Abilene, TX
Estimated-size surface Storm date Abilene / TX
Jul 5, 2026
2" Signatures 2" Estimated 1.25"
3 ground reports Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Abilene / TX
Jun 6, 2026
1.75" Signatures 1.75" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Abilene / TX
May 28, 2026
1.75" Signatures 1.75" Estimated 1"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Abilene / TX
May 22, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Abilene / TX
Apr 17, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Abilene / TX
Apr 15, 2026
2" Estimated 2"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Abilene / TX
Apr 11, 2026
0.75" Signatures 0.75"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Abilene / TX
Apr 3, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Abilene / TX
Mar 6, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed Open report →
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A storm day here is a convective day — it runs from noon to noon
UTC, so late-night hail is grouped with the afternoon storm that
spawned it rather than split across two calendar dates. Ground
reports are public-domain observations from the NOAA Storm
Prediction Center. Radar tells you where to look. Only an inspection confirms damage at an address. Last updated Aug 3, 2026.